The Student Service-Learning Leaders (S2L2) program is a student organization dedicated to developing student leadership that is applied to service-learning.  Service-learning enables students to take their academic experience and apply it in a way that benefits the community.  It is a Missouri State public affairs initiative.  The program was launched in 2007-08 to create opportunities for students to create a broader awareness of service-learning and to include student voice in strategic planning.

The job pays $10/hour and the hours are flexible. The maximum number of hours/week is 10.  Click here for a link to flyer.

General responsibilities include:

• Facilitating student focus groups to solicit information and broaden campus awareness
• Reading Students as Colleagues (purchased by CASL office) as a team and discussing chapters
• Reviewing well regarded service-learning student leadership initiatives on other campuses and reporting on those to the group
• Advise CASL office on how to include student voice in strategic planning
• Assisting faculty with service-learning students in the spring of 2008
• Assist with civic engagement activities on campus, including, but not limited to Public Affairs Week, Public Affairs Conference, and Voter Registration
• Community Partner visits

Qualifications include:

• Interest in community service
• Eligible for Federal Work Study (Call Mary Barb in the Student Employment Office 836-5627 to confirm eligibility)
• Excellent communication skills
• Desire to work with college students and the CASL office
• Leadership experience

One of the perks is a backpack (of the student’s choice) that is $45 or less.

Click here for a link to the S2L2 application.

If you are interested in this program and would like to discuss this opportunity, please contact Elizabeth Carmichael Burton, CASL Associate Director, at 836-5774 or elizabethburton@missouristate.edu.